Theatre studies

Frederick Burwick reveals how the most volatile developments in British drama from the 1790s to 1830s took place in the industrial provinces.

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have emerged as an important medium for the creation, sale and collection of art, with many major business and fashion houses creating their own NFT projects.

This is a classic book on voice and speech, designed for actors at all levels.

Harold Pinter provides an up-to-date analysis and reappraisal concerning the work of one of the most studied and performed dramatists in the world.

Ready-to-use lessons for teaching basic life skills to adolescents with special needs This book offers teachers and parents a unique collection of more than 200 worksheets to help adolescents with special needs build the life skills they need to achieve independence and succeed in everyday life.

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

Introduction by Richard CarpenterThe definitive biography of one of the most enduring and endeared recording artists in historythe Carpentersis told for the first time from the perspective of Richard Carpenter, through more than 100 hours of exclusive interviews and some 200 photographs from Richard's personal archive, many never published.

Arthur Lessac's Embodied Actor Training situates the work of renowned voice and movement trainer Arthur Lessac in the context of contemporary actor training.

For young people, the space of the drama classroom can be a space for deep learning as they struggle across difference to create something together with common purpose.

Filichia presents brainteasers that require more than an ordinary knowledge of Broadway facts that will send even the most seasoned theater lovers looking for answers.

A fascinating exploration of one of the most influential American playwrights of the contemporary stage.

Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the twentieth-century, telling various stories collectively.

This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base.

Marina Abramovic is the creator of pioneering performance art which transcends the form's provocative origins.

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Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian perspective.

This practical, accessible and far-reaching guide to making site-specific theatre and performance emphasises the diversity of approaches to the practice, and explores key principles of space and site.

The Mischief Festival returns this spring with a double bill of new plays exploring global questions of truth, freedom and corruption; and a very personal one-woman show.

Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history.

As a boy, Michael Simkins always wanted to be someone.

"e;Those who dismiss Brecht as a yea-sayer to Stalinism are advised to read these journals and moderate their opinion.

This book shows that the sounds of the early modern stage do not only signify but are also significant.

Who were the giants of the twentieth-century stage, and exactly how did they influence modern theatre?

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New Visions in Performance features the work of twelve performers and academics who are concerned with the integration of digital technologies into theatrical performance.

There's nae power on earth can crush the men who can sing on a day like this.

Engaging with recent thinking about performance, political theory and canon formation, this study addresses the significance of the formal changes in seventeenth-century French theater.

Tragedy: The Basics is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to dramatic tragedy.

Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "e;entangled histories"e; as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography.

Examining the extraordinary influence of Darwin's theory of evolution on French thought from 1875 to 1910, Rae Beth Gordon argues for a reconsideration of modernism both in time and in place that situates its beginnings in the French cafe-concert aesthetic.

At first consideration, it would seem that Shakespeare and Monty Python have very little in common other than that they're both English.

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This book writes a performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's most ambiguous play, from 1606 to the present.

Punchdrunk on the Classics: Experiencing Immersion in The Burnt City and Beyond draws attention to Punchdrunk's use of ancient Greek literature in their creation of immersive theatre.

Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage.

The great nineteenth-century stage actor Edwin Booth began his long career in 1849 as a young teenager, following in his father's footsteps.

Whether you are a current US citizen or not, this book will teach you things you didnaet know about being a legal member of the country.

This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England.

This is the definitive resource for understanding and practicing the influential dance technique developed by two pioneers of modern dance, Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis.

Curated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeare's works are given new life and purpose for today's readers and actors alike.

A study of British theatre historiography, from its origins in the Restoration to its development as an academic discipline in the twentieth century.

Volume XV contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, and Amphitryon.

Playwriting for Puppet Theatre provides a foundation for those puppeteers, teachers and librarians who want to develop suitable scripts for puppet theatre.

This volume publishes Anna Sokolow's Ballade in Labanotation for the first time.

Much of the work in the field of African studies still relies on rigid distinctions of 'tradition' and 'modernity', 'collaboration' and 'resistance', 'indigenous' and 'foreign'.

Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics.

This book is the first of its kind offering a materialistic semiotic analysis of a non-Western theatre culture: Bengali group theatre.

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp's recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.

Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin reveals the ways in which the major themes of evolution were taken up in the performing arts during Darwin's adult lifetime and in the generation after his death.